LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Daredevil terrorists on Sunday morning abducted no fewer than 25 worshippers after they attacked a local church known as New Life for All Church, in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. The incident occurred at Jan-Tsauni, Gidan Haruna community, at about 7a.m., when the worshippers had just gathered to commence the…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Nigerians prepare to elect a new president next month, the Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday advised them to shun those promoting ‘emilokan’ and politics of entitlement. Bakare also pointed out that good politicians seeking for votes from the electorates do…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits have burnt to death the Deanery of the Catholic Church in Kaffinkoro town in the Psikoro local government area of Niger state Reverend Father Isaac Achi. His assistant in the church Reverend father Collins also sustained gunshot injuries and had been rushed to the hospital. THISDAY…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in Plateau State yesterday evening as a truck conveying the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Pankshin venue of their governorship campaign rally in Plateau Central Zone veered off the road and crashed into the bush, killing several persons and leaving others critically injured. A source at the community said the truck…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A leading Anti-Corruption Organization in Nigeria, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has filled a petition to the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) against the former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential Candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar for incorporating…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, APC-PCC, has alleged that an unauthorized camera man for Arise TV was caught secretly streaming live its presidential flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at a Lagos event. The APC-PCC Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga disclosed this in a post via his Twitter handle. Onanuga…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi, popularly known as Papa Ajasco, is dead. His death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter handle on Sunday. He wrote, “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with #NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the ‘Papa…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command headquarters at Bompai, Nasarawa Local Government Area, was gutted by fire on Saturday, with many offices and files razed. The state fire service officials were said to have been deployed to the scene to contain the raging fire on the one-storey building of the command. It was…